Wednesday

Feb.
24, 1999

Vaine Men

It was on this day in 1942 that the VOICE OF AMERICA, the American
government's radio network, made its first broadcasta
message in German and aimed to counter Nazi propaganda
amongst the German people. By the end of the war the VOICE
OF AMERICA network was broadcasting over 3000 programs in 40
languages every week.

It was on this day in 1868 that the House of
Representatives voted to impeach President Andrew Johnson.
He was the 17th president and the one who took over after
Lincoln's assassination in 1865. The case was rejected in
the Senate by one vote and Johnson stayed in office.

It's the birthday of the American painter WINSLOW
HOMER, born 1836 in Boston, one of the 19th century
realist painters, famous for his scenes of the sea. On his
66th birthday he wrote to a friend, "It will please you
to know that after waiting a full year, looking out every
day at it, I have today, on my birthday, got the light and
the sea that I wanted."

It's the birthday of WILHELM GRIMM, born 1786 in Hannau,
Germany, the younger of the two Brothers Grimm, whose
collection of over 200 folk tales, Grimm's Fairy Tales
(1812-22) is known as the first scientific collection of
folk stories which they got by talking to farmers,
shopkeepers and other locals.

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